Digital Journalist: In his essay Mark Loundy says newspapers are dragging down the brand values of news. He highlights some of the fabulous things that can be done with information online. Trouble is, he doesn’t spell out how it will make money…
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Broadcasting and Cable: News organizations with shrinking budgets are forming an increasingly symbiotic relationship with a new wave of independent online news sites—many of them staffed by pink-slipped print reporters, says Melissa Guthrie:
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The Awl: A graphic that makes for enlightening, if depressing, reading – newspaper circulation in the US over the past 20 years. Note the Wall Street Journal after it combined print and online. Of course, the US is totally different to Australia, isn’t it?
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Buzz Machine: Jeff Jarvis highlights the story of Kai Diekmann, the editor of Das Bild, who is turning himself into a brand on behalf of his paper:
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Paid Content: Wall Street Journal to revamp and enhance European edition and website and offer special deals to Euro subscribers:
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Paid Content: Tameka Kee reports on Media140 conference in US (Sydney conference November 5-6, see Chris Warren on social media ethics). Info still needs real time moderators – “today’s kids are tech-savvy but not information savvy…”
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Paid Content: More on Media140 – Twitters billion-dollar valuation and putting a value on real-time information:
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Guardian: Arnon Miskin on why Steve Jobs could save us all – it’s the apps, stupid!
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Briebart: AP’s David Bauder on why speed can be the enemy of good journalism – where was the scepticism when the boy in the balloon dominated the news cycle?
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Adage: It’s still advertising first, search second and paid content third says Nat Ives at MediaWorks:
